Re: [Firebird-docs] A how-to on writing Firebird docs?

[Frederic G. M. <fg...@os...>]

Yes, thanks,

I knew context already: I wrote an ObjectPAL highlighter for it. Really nice
editor.

"Helen Borrie" <he...@tp...> a écrit dans le message de
news:5.2...@ma......
> At 02:27 AM 4/06/2004 +0200, you wrote:
>
> >You can generate DocBook with OO 1.1.1 but I personally find it rather
> >awkward. Carlos seems to be doing OK with it though :-)
> >
> >If you want to take the DocBook-with-OO route, read
> >
> >   http://xml.openoffice.org/xmerge/docbook/UserGuide.html
> >
> >...and also get that template they link to.
>
> You also need to get the three XSLT files.  Actually, this link is better
> to cover fully what you need to do to activate XML filtering (as I
> discovered yesterday after several frustrating hours trying to make OO.o
> 1.1.1 behave as described in the UserGuide.html page).  It's incredible
> that they don't have these two pieces together in one document!!
>
> Start here and use method 1:
> http://xml.openoffice.org/xmerge/docbook/
>
> Once you do this bit, the UserGuide instructions work fine and it's really
> easy to write an <article> or <chapter> document.
>
>
> >If you think you're going to write more technical docs in the future
> >(not necessarily for Firebird), learning DocBook may be very
> >benificial for you. You can find all you need in the Firebird
> >Docwriting Howto (but this will cost you at least an hour to read
> >and understand):
> >
> >
http://www.firebirdsql.org/devel/doc/manual/defaulthtml/docwritehowto.html
>
> Confirmed, Paul's Howto is a good coverage of the absolute basics of
DocBook.
>
> Paul, I'm working on the converter for the Framemaker xml and I really
> don't think it will be rocket science to write another one for
reprocessing
> the OO docbook output, if it's needed.
>
> NB also the usefulness of ConText (www.fixedsys.com/context) for
converting
> your files to UTF-8...unicode...You can, of course, do this with the NT
> version of Notepad, but Context has a proper highlighter for XML.
>
> Helen
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